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In Reply to: RE: Admit it: Star Wars, the Force Awakens Stinks. posted by RGA on December 30, 2015 at 21:53:14
Movies are a lot like high-end audio. Now matter how mediocre something is, there are going to be those people who think it's great.
George Lucas was recently interviewed and referred to Disney's acquisition of the Star Wars franchise as "white slavers". He went on to say that "American filmmakers don't have much freedom because Hollywood has to adhere to a very narrow line of commercialism. The other thing that got abused -naturally, in a capitalistic society - especially in the American point of view- the studios said Wow, we can make a lot of money. This is a license to kill. And they did it. And of course the only way you can do that is to not take chances. Only do something that's proven. They went on to do a retro movie."
RGA states: "The Force Awakens is vastly better than all three prequels combined. I'd argue it's better than Return and has better pacing than the original....which is difficult to sit through."
RGA, you got to lay off that crack pipe : )
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I think most reviewers agree that this is a better film than the three prequels that Lucas put out - see rottentomatoes as evidence to this effect. Return of the Jedi was the weakest of the three original movies - I just rewatched the three originals this past weekend - and actually I would reverse my stance on the original - it was rewatchable surprisingly.
Lucas' indictment on Hollywood where he made his billions is a bit laughable. He's a terrible director and the prequels episode 1-2-3 were unwatchable. I actually walked out of the Phantom Menace - one of the only times I've walked out on a film it was so obnoxiously bad. And I sat through "I Spit on Your Grave."
This is the typical summer blockbuster released over Christmas to make a killing at the box office where there are no other big blockbusters. This is a blockbuster spectacle based movie - it's no deeper or shallower than any of the previous entries. Star Wars never was - for that Star Trek the TV series was vastly more thought provoking.
Not sure what you were expecting from a Star Wars movie - high expectations is a mistake from such kinds of movies. For what it is it's well done - and like the original 3 films doesn't get bogged down by long tedious senate discussions and lack of character development.
The review that summed up the Phantom menace and the prequels to a tee.
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